Jungle Rot Zombie

Another monster I drew on the flight to Croatia. I have no idea what that is growing out of his head, the jungle vegetation just took over I suppose.

Airborne Terrors

I drew the guy on the lower right while on the plane flying to Croatia.

More Gore

By popular demand (my friend Silvano requested more gore!) here is some more old art showing my "splatter influence". Oddly enough, I was drawing a similar picture to this one when my wife spoke to me for the first time. We were sitting next to each other in a psychology class in college, and she noticed my gruesome sketch, and asked me if I was an artist. Just goes to show you that you should never underestimate the power of a gore cartoon- it might just be the catalyst that introduces you to your future wife!

I am not really sure what this particular drawing was all about, probably just an excuse to practice drawing gallons of blood spraying from a twisted face.

Expressions Taken Literally

Years ago I used to draw some rather gory cartoons. I tend to avoid the gore these days and focus on monsters. I found this old sketch and found it weird enough that I had to post it. I am guessing this one comes from around 1987 or 88, ball point pen in a ruled notebook. I could have gone in and tried to clean this up digitally, but hey- it's an oldie so let it show off the bumps and bruises...and severed limbs...

Knuckle Duster

Inspired by Ed Roth and his awesome eye poppin' knuckle draggin' monsters. From one of my sketchbooks. Pigma Micron felt tip marker.

I just read that Jack Kamen passed away- another great horror artist gone!

Scream Until You Like It- Part 2

So this is the latest version of my "Scream Until You Like It" character. Just trying to push his coloring a little further and give him a more "realistic" vibe. I had actually painted in a cool dungeon-esque background, and I was quite proud of it, but for some reason it just didn't work as effictively as I had been hoping for. I am going to do a new version with a different background, but for now, you get the quick and easy black and blood splattered red background. I love working digitally, always a challenge and always fun!!

Curse of the Fanged Freak

Another vile creature I dragged kicking and screaming out of the dark corners of the vault. From 1988 this time. Ball point pen, lotsa cleanup and added background in Photoshop.
I went to the Park City Arts Festival with the family this weekend, always fun to get out and see all the work that the "normal" artists are creating and selling. Also got me all fired up to do some more traditional artwork, so I started working on a canvas last night using acrylics. Lotsa fun! Can't wait to work on it some more.

Some Unfinished Business

When I am busy checking out other people's artwork, one of my favorite things is to see some of their works in progress or sketches. Hopefully, the same applies to the fine folks that take time to visit my blog because I sure post a lot of unfinished pieces here. The main problem I have at the moment in my artistic career is that I am not working full time as an artist. I have just a few minutes every day to sneak in a little sketch time at work, unless I happen to be stuck in a meeting which happens quite a bit, providing me with a good chance to draw and sketch without getting in trouble. Usually I end up with a lot of quick sketches and rough unfinished pieces, but often I find that there are some great things lurking in those sketches, and I can often revisit them later to finish them or use them as a basis for a detailed digital painting. This particular drawing was done with Pigma Micron felt tip markers, and I am sure I intended to have a lot more crazy monsters coming out of this mess, but never got around to finishing it up. I do like a lot of this though, and thought it was worthy of a post here on my blog. Let me know what you think!

Radiation Sickness

This guy kinda reminds me of something from the remake of The Hills Have Eyes. Drawn during another meeting at work.

So late last night I was loading up some stuff in the van after a family party at a park- I slipped on a curb and twisted the hell out of my right ankle. Fortunately I didn't break anything, but I tore some ligaments and seriously sprained it. Did the same thing about 20 years ago... I really hate it when things like that happen!

Face Your Fear

I think this monster was a result of indigestion. I drew him around last October while I was working in Eugene, Oregon. There was a Chinese Buffet restaurant across the street from the hotel I was staying in, and I drew this guy between bites of General Tso's chicken and Broccoli Beef. Pigma micron markers were the weapon of choice.

So, it was my birthday on Monday- Turned 41 without too much pain. My car decided to deprive me of a highly anticipated gift- I had been looking forward to buying a Canon Rebel Xti digital camera, but my car was making weird noises, and what seemed like a small problem escalated into a $1,500 repair to have the rack & pinion system replaced. Man, I coulda bought 2 cameras for that kind of money! On a brighter note, I did manage to make it out to my all time favorite BBQ restaurant, a place called Q4U located in Kearns, Utah. I have travelled far and wide with my job, and I am always on the prowl for good BBQ- fortunately for me, nothing has come close to Q4U. They have the BEST spare ribs on the planet. If you get a chance, go give Q4U a shot- you won't be disappointed. If you are, then you wouldn't know a good BBQ'ed rib if it bit ya on the butt!

The Return of the Goon Squad

More sketchbook fun. Started this one a couple of days ago. Not sure what these creeps are up to, but I am pretty sure it can't be anything good.

In The Shadows of the Crypt

This handsome fella crawled out of my brain during another great meeting at work. If it weren't for all those meetings, I would never get a chance to sketch...

Freaked Out Freaks

I sketched both of these freaks during a meeting a few weeks ago at work. I have had them staring at me from my desk for the past few days, so I figured I better post them here before they get upset and try to eat me for lunch.

Work in Progress part 2

Spent some more time cleaning up the skeleton dude last night. Still need to get his top hat finished up, but it is looking much better than before. I have noticed that when I upload images on blogger, the colors tend to get washed out a bit- the reds in the skeletons jacket are much more vivid before uploading them here. I worked on this while watching the Utah Jazz get their butts kicked by Houston last night. Ugly game Jazz!!

More freaks from the asylum in my head

Just put this together for my Deviantart page. I had another pile of recent sketches (with the exception of the DBT zombie- the guy with the inverted baseball cap...he's a bit older than the rest of these)that I wanted to get posted. I dig being able to scan in my sketches and compile them all together like this. I came up with the weird retro green background and added the odd shapes to put the sketches in. Many of these are "blob sketches" which is a great way to get the creativity flowing, and others are just a result of sitting down with the sketch book and some Micron pens. Lately I have been drawing much more than usual, and I am enjoying it immensely. Nothing like a good drawing session to make everything better!!

Black Lagoon Gut

Just another sketch from a few days back.

Mordacious Sketches Series

While I am at work, there are many opportunities for me to sneak in some sketch time. After several months, these random sketches end up scattered across lots of note books, meeting note pages and on the back of printer pages. The other night I gathered up a bunch of these sketches and scanned them all, took em into Photoshop and started making some pages filled with these sketches. This is the result. I don't take these too seriously, some of them I really like, others are pretty fast and lame, but thats the point of sketches isn't it? If not I guess we would call them "Portfolio Books" rather than sketch books. I find it enjoyable to see some of these sketches again, as after a month or two I forget that I even drew them, so it is fun to see them and wonder what on earth I was thinking about when I drew them. Some of these may have been posted on this blog in the past, but I wanted to compile all of them together, so there should be plenty of new stuff as well. Hope you like them! Lots more to come!!